Journalism category: 1922 books
A Handbook of Journalism
Media in the Information Age
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2018
Journalism as a discipline is becoming increasingly important today. It has to contend with new challenges such as the explosion of social media, heightened commercial competition in the mainstream media and the emergence of the media as a powerful actor in public policy and governance. The confluence...
by Deborah Chambers, Linda Steiner, Carole Fleming
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2004
Women and Journalism offers a rich and comprehensive analysis of the roles, status and experiences of women journalists in the United States and Britain.
Drawing on a variety of sources and dealing with a host of women journalists ranging from nineteenth century pioneers to Martha Gellhorn,...
The Burden of Visual Truth
The Role of Photojournalism in Mediating Reality
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2013
As the visual component of contemporary media has overtaken the verbal, visual reportage has established a unique and extremely significant role in 21st-century culture. Julianne Newton has prepared this comprehensive analysis of the development of the role of visual reportage as a critical player...
The Funniest Pages
International Perspectives on Humor in Journalism
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
Charles Dickens, celebrated novelist and journalist, believed that his greatest ability as a writer was to make people laugh. Yet, to date, humor has been strangely marginalized in journalism, communication and media studies.
This innovative book draws together the work of seventeen writers to show...
Mindful Journalism and News Ethics in the Digital Era
A Buddhist Approach
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2015
This book aims to be the first comprehensive exposition of "mindful journalism"—drawn from core Buddhist ethical principles—as a fresh approach to journalism ethics. It suggests that Buddhist mindfulness strategies can be applied purposively in journalism to add clarity, fairness and...
An Improper Profession
Women, Gender, and Journalism in Late Imperial Russia
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2001
Journalism has long been a major factor in defining the opinions of Russia’s literate classes. Although women participated in nearly every aspect of the journalistic process during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, female editors, publishers, and writers have been consistently omitted...
Burning Crosses and Activist Journalism
Hazel Brannon Smith and the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2009
Burning Crosses and Activist Journalism: Hazel Brannon Smith and the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement celebrates the contributions of the first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing (1964). Owner and publisher of four weekly newspapers in Mississippi, Smith began her journalism career...
Network Journalism
Journalistic Practice in Interactive Spheres
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2011
Drawing on current theoretical debates in journalism studies, and grounded in empirical research, Heinrich here analyzes the interplay between journalistic practice and processes of globalization and digitalization. She argues that a new kind of journalism is emerging, characterized by an increasingly...
by Paul Chantler, Peter Stewart
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2013
Basic Radio Journalism is a working manual and practical guide to the tools and techniques necessary to succeed in radio journalism. It will be useful both to students starting a broadcasting career as well as experienced journalists wishing to develop and expand their skills.
Based on the...
Print Journalism
A Critical Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2005
Print Journalism provides an up-to-date overview of the skills needed to work within the newspaper and magazine industries.
This critical approach to newspaper and magazine practice highlights historical, theoretical, ethical and political debates and includes tips on the everyday skills of...
Peace Journalism Principles and Practices
Responsibly Reporting Conflicts, Reconciliation, and Solutions
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
Long-time peace journalist Steven Youngblood presents the foundations of peace journalism in this exciting new textbook, offering readers the methods, approaches, and concepts required to use journalism as a tool for peace, reconciliation, and development. Guidance is offered on framing stories, ethical...
by Carolyn Kitch, Janice Hume
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
This book considers the cultural meanings of death in American journalism and the role of journalism in interpretations and enactments of public grief, which has returned to an almost Victorian level. A number of researchers have begun to address this growing collective preoccupation with death in...
by Robert Snyder
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018
The events of 1989 were the material of great reporting. They also revealed the power of journalism. Long before people in Central and Eastern Europe liberated themselves, they discovered democratic freedom, putting to print their own ideas and chronicling events of the day. Indeed, long before they...
The Struggle for the Soul of Journalism
The Pulpit versus the Press, 1833-1923
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
In this study, Ronald R. Rodgers examines several narratives involving religion’s historical influence on the news ethic of journalism: its decades-long opposition to the Sunday newspaper as a vehicle of modernity that challenged the tradition of the Sabbath; the parallel attempt to create an advertising-driven...